Hollywood Domination Chapter 60: Sleeping Jenny
It has been a while since I started filming "Pirates of the Caribbean". Although it is a masterpiece, it is not difficult for Jenny, and it belongs to the type of labor and effort. She didn't even need to re-watch Keira Knightley's performance often, just did a few auditions in the performing arts space, and she almost conquered the role of Elizabeth Swan, and it was also very easy in the script study. Approved by Gore.
Different from the linear development of characters in TV dramas, to play the leading role in a movie, there are some basic skills that must be honed in actual combat. For example, interpreting the character's personality through the script and identifying the relationship between the characters are all tasks that must be done before filming starts. Of course, a few weird directors didn’t even have a script in their hands when the filming started, and the role relationship was determined by the actors’ countless reshoots (Wong Kar-wai), but that’s only the performance of a great artist director. Before filming starts, character interpretation, script dialogue, and auditions must be done. At the same time, the set crew must also prepare props and filming locations. Shooting a movie is a very expensive job, and there will be fewer staff during the preparation period. At this time, adjusting the state of the actors will save a lot of money than NG after the shooting starts.
Jerry is ready to go on vacation at this time. For a big producer like him, unless the problems on the set are so serious that the budget is overrun and you need to ask Disney for more money, or the starring and director are in conflict, you can't continue. work, otherwise there is no need to solve it in person. Naturally, there are countless producer assistants and executive producers to take care of the basic necessities of the film crew, and to solve the endless small problems on the set. As for what each working group does every day, it is decided by the director, so a good director often has a fixed working team, and they are often masters of overall planning, especially for blockbuster films like "Pirates of the Caribbean", including temporary Sometimes the number of actors to be mobilized exceeds hundreds, and the number of film crews is also more than a hundred. Without a little level of coordination, it is impossible to make everyone appear in the place where they should appear at a fixed time, let alone go smoothly. Shoot down.
——It is also because of a little understanding of these things that Chen Zhen has never thought of becoming a director or screenwriter, let alone whether it is moral to plunder the fruits of other people's labor, just from the feasibility of such an idea It’s just stupid. Let’s talk about being a screenwriter first. Hollywood has thousands of good scripts lying in the script libraries of major film and television companies every year waiting to be shot. For a 14-year-old film, the script may have been written in 2000. Yes, but I have never been able to find a suitable opportunity to shoot. At this time, even if you write the same script through pulling the film, wait for the defendant after it is shot and released. This kind of script will first go through copyright registration, and the overlap rate is so high. The judge Plagiarism will be judged without blinking an eye, and what awaits Jenny will be the result of huge fines and discredit.
As for being a director, it’s even worse. There are so many good films, and even if you’ve seen them, it doesn’t mean you can shoot them. You know this shot is good, but do you know how it was shot? Unless you can set up scenes with your own hands and feet, or even take pictures by yourself (even so, there are limitations in your hands-on ability), otherwise, even if you are given an unlimited budget and a seasoned work team, you may not be able to restore the same movie. Movies, even if the same movie is restored, do you know how people in the previous life marketed it? It is not uncommon for good movies to fail to perform well because of poor marketing. The biggest possibility of imaginative plagiarism is despicable deprivation of other people's opportunities to create good works, and I have not been able to make any classics.
But being an actor is different. A role played by two people may have two different performances. Version, here she plays the role of "a stone from another mountain can be used to attack jade". She cannot and does not intend to copy the performance of the original actor, but uses it as a reference to improve her own performance ideas. For example, Keira Knightley in "Pirates of the Caribbean", her performance changes in the three "Pirates of the Caribbean" have given Jenny a lot of inspiration.
Judging from her resume, Kayla was also born in Yeluzi. She did not receive a professional education, nor was she honed in the West End of London. Therefore, when she starred in "Pirates of the Caribbean 1", her performance was far from perfect, and she has been relying on her personal charm to hold on. Many times, she has the feeling of making people play, except that the love scene with the blacksmith is relatively blunt. , the biggest problem is that she can't adapt to the sense of humor of the "Pirates" series.
"Pirates of the Caribbean" tells the story of the British crackdown on piracy, the pirate captain Jack Sparrow, in order to regain his Black Pearl, and Will Turner Jr., the son of the crew member of the Black Pearl, Will Turner. The whole film is roughly divided into two lines, one is that Captain Jack and the blacksmith Will summon the crew to recapture the Black Pearl, and the other is what Elizabeth saw and heard after being robbed to the Black Pearl. The biggest charm of the "Pirate" series is its style of absurdity and seriousness intertwined. On the one hand, the battle of destroying cities and villages is indeed happening, and background NPCs are also dying on the ground. It is even said that the British navy is also chasing and killing pirates. , the whole big world view is still operating according to basic common sense. It is a serious world, not an outright ridiculous comedy, but on the other hand, the audience does not need to worry that the main characters will die, or even that they will fail. He is not a traditional hero like Stallone and Schwarzenegger who suffers from deep hatred and frowns. He rarely even has serious moments, and the character itself condenses a strong sense of joy. The fight between life and death takes place between laughing and cursing, fighting and funny elements are entangled, and become a tool for flirting or embodying the character's personal charm.
In the whole movie, all the plots surrounding Captain Jack have this very strong sense of absurd joy. Jack used unreliable methods to complete reliable things through a very unreliable process. Even if he's doing big things, there's no admiration for him, but this kind of approachable and funny portrayal is very popular with the audience, and the audience will think, oops, this guy is funny, cool and funny , but also indescribably stylish. The popularity of the pirate series all over the world is due to the charm of Captain Jack, rather than Will and Elizabeth’s well-behaved performances. This is why starring in the pirate series has made Johnny Depp a superstar, one of the few super A-list in Hollywood One of the members, but the help to Orlando and Keira is very limited, and it cannot help them go further on the star road. In addition to their own acting limitations, but also because the essence of "Pirates of the Caribbean" is completely condensed on Captain Jack, they can only become the "normal" side that sets off its "abnormal" charm.
As for Keira, in "Pirate 1", her performance was even worse than that of Orlando, because the blacksmith in Orlando interacted with Captain Jack a lot, and the script also arranged a lot of funny details for him. She blends into the characters all the time, but at least she sticks to the 'ridiculous and funny' side, and Keira's Elizabeth takes on a lot of screaming, panic, and frightening scenes. Most of the time, she is just a vase for the plot, and Some rare funny scenes Keira acted unnaturally, and the love scene with Orlando was also very stiff, so this role did not give people a sense of excellence, the only function is to make people sure that she is indeed beautiful-let Enough people around the world are sure of that.
But does this mean that the potential of Elizabeth is the only one? Jenny doesn't think that's the case. Even Keira, her performance has matured and improved in "Pirates 2" and "Pirates 3". "The fascinating element. This shows that Keira's acting ideas were not clear enough in the first part, and she also understood the popularity of "Pirate" in the second and third parts, and she is trying to get closer to it. And with her extraordinary talent, the results of her hard work are quite obvious. The only regret is that Keira's temperament is too serious, and her teeth are not very neat, and she has a wry smile when she smiles, so she can't get along with her in the final 3 parts. Like Depp, the seamless switch between serious and funny fits perfectly with the most charming quality of the whole series. At this point, Penelope Cruz, the leading actress in "Pirates 4", performed very well, and she deserves to be the best supporting actress at the Oscars. Although "Pirates 4" is full of beauties, she and Depp sometimes turn against each other The life-and-death struggle, sometimes saving each other, and the relationship of loving and killing each other are handled very well, and there is no feeling that they can't keep up with the rhythm of the performance. In "Pirate 1", it is not uncommon for Keira to drop the line, and even in the whole set of scenes in her first appearance, the scene of being "strangled by a corset" is not convincing. This is the reason for not being able to adapt to the style of "Pirate". And what Jenny has to do is not to make the mistakes that Keira made, and continue to carry forward the points that she performed well-Kayla performed well when dealing with some big lady's boudoir scenes, which shows that this is what she is good at So in the following year, she was nominated for both the Golden Globe and the Oscar for "Sense and Sensibility". It's just that this kind of scene is too rare in "Pirates", and it is definitely not the focus.
For Jenny, the lady's boudoir scene is her difficulty, because she is not British, nor does she have the natural and casual classical aristocratic temperament of British actors, so she decided to use empathy cheats for this part of the scene. As for the scenes that Keira is not good at handling, she is not very frightened. She already has a very complete idea, and has verified it several times through the performing arts space. Compared with Keira's restrained facial expressions, she decided to reflect In the right way, Elizabeth's character is expressed through rich facial expressions, body movements and eye changes.
Although no matter how she acts, the performances of Depp and others in the performing arts space are similar, so her changes are a bit out of place, but Jenny still decides to stick to her own ideas. Anyway, she has a psychological security blanket: behaving well No matter how bad it is, Kayla is like this. Doesn't it affect the box office even if she is like that? Anyway, I do my best, as long as I perform better than her, the extra praise and so on will be considered my earnings.
She didn't know how Keira wrote the character understanding at the time. After combing the script and Keira's performance in the three films, Jenny decided to build her understanding of the role in this way: Elizabeth is a young lady with an adventurous gene in her bones. , her brain is often very excited when facing desperation, and she can use her cleverness to save the situation. She has the cunning and wisdom unique to women, but at the beginning of the film, she is still too naive, and she is also a little coddled and timid, but in these coddled and timid There is still a bold, cautious and cunning Elizabeth behind the little one observing the situation. Her sense of joy and romance are politely concealed at the beginning of the film, only slightly revealing, but later in the film, they are fully exposed. Even at the beginning of the film, she's just a ladylike presence in front of people, and behind them she's a lively, cunning young woman with lots of inappropriate rudeness, all through her hyperactive body language and richness. Her facial expressions and language show it, and in social situations, although her manners are perfect, her eyes and expressions still reveal her true character.
Of course, this is just a very rough idea, and Jenny also wrote performance interpretations for some specific scenes. It's all up. After Gore read it, he also agreed with her thinking—then the whole work was very simple for Jenny. All she had to do was to get up early every morning, and use some bits and pieces of makeup and waiting time to create a new idea in her mind. Preview the scenes to be filmed today, make various attempts according to the performance ideas and empathy, and then find the one that is most compatible with the film style through playback, and start acting. Like a sniper, test fire - find the best angle to shoot - blah blah blah.
Generally speaking, Gore doesn't have much opinion on her 'da da da da da'. Jenny seldom gets NG because of her performance, and this kind of performance also makes some crew members look at her with admiration. Mary I told Jenny that there were some voices in the crew saying, 'Her performance and the role report are not at all like she just graduated from high school, and it doesn't look like she only entered the show for a year'.
——It is worth mentioning that although Jenny has left New York now, Mary has not resigned, but has become her long-term assistant. I used his method to measure my odds of success, and found that at my current weight, my odds of success were even lower than 0'.
Despite this, Marie is still full of interest in the performing arts industry. Although she no longer has any hope of becoming an actress, she still wants to stay around the performing arts circle and find her own development direction, so she changed the track, hoping to win As for Jenny's long-term assistant position, this is actually a path that many people at the bottom of the industry will choose. Whether it is to become an agent or manager in the future, or to be an artist's housekeeper or life assistant, it is actually a high-paying and high-returning position , if Jenny can take off, Mary can be regarded as holding a golden thigh.
As for Jenny, she also found that she was very naive when she rejected Cesare's idea of asking her to find a manager. At least now she needs someone who can answer the phone for her in time when she is filming, and do some Simple communication, such as the simplest one, when PR Judy called to confirm the interview time, Jenny was filming, so it would be very delayed. At this time, Mary can pick up the phone and simply check the shooting schedule, Schedule the interview. In addition, her asking price is not high, her performance is not bad, and she has always been diligent and dedicated, so after consulting with Cesare, she signed a one-year employment contract with Mary, and of course there was a confidentiality contract. Mary commented on her work, Jenny's public and private life, and more.
After hiring Mary, Jenny will hear some gossip from time to time in the crew. In fact, most of the time it is the work within the scope of the manager. Basically, such as taking meals and bags, Jenny does it by herself, and no one else can find fault with her playing big names.
In general, her reputation in the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean" is actually on the rise. In the beginning, even the writer of the script had certain doubts about Jenny's role. After all, Keira was at least British, and at the time No one has heard whether Jenny's British accent is pure, and Cesare's mother is the manager of the Disney production department. Although she did not appear in this game from the beginning to the end, the public's ability to guess the inside story Has always been very strong. Coupled with various factors such as the comparison of resumes, many people think that Jenny won the role through a powerful agent. The most outrageous nickname Mary heard was "Vijay's bitch". The gossip between the two quickly disappeared, and what people began to inquire about was the box office storm she caused on Broadway. ——After all, they are all insiders. Regarding acting skills, many staff members may not be able to give subtle comments, but they can still have an intuitive feeling of good and bad.
After more than a month of filming, the only negative nickname for Jenny is 'Sleeping Jenny'. For makeup, Jenny usually immerses herself in the performing arts space, so that she can at least have a relatively complete rest time, and will not work at full capacity every day. So in the eyes of outsiders, she is taking all the time to close her eyes and rest her mind. Although there is nothing wrong with it, it also feels a little difficult to approach.
Will do this, of course not without intention, because if Jenny is very social, it is inevitable that Jenny will have more chances to interact with Gore, which is not good for him or her, in order to avoid damaging his life. Regardless of her family or her mental health, she continued to maintain a socially awkward image on the set, but when she was filming with Josh and the others, she would chat a few words during the breaks to create an atmosphere of mutual affection.
However, it's been a month since filming started, and she and Josh haven't had a lot of scenes, so the two are still far from familiar. Josh was not enthusiastic about her in private, but there were signs of alienation and avoidance everywhere. It felt like he was trying his best to maintain basic social courtesy. Jenny even suspected that his relaxed performance when chatting with her at Jerry's house was He's pretending to lie to the higher-ups, but he's actually a misogynistic homosexual.
Although the two have a contract, the execution of this contract is very flexible. It is impossible for Jenny to put a hot face on a cold **** all the time, so the relationship between the two is still deadlocked for the time being. Jenny's initial plan is to wait The film crew put pressure on them to get in close contact with Josh again—in fact, the reason why this accident has developed into what it is now cannot but be said to have something to do with their rigid social interaction.
After filming some indoor scenes in LA, the film crew now moved to the Caribbean coast to start filming exterior scenes. Since they chose a wild island that cannot provide accommodation, the film crew had to travel between the filming location and the residence by speedboat every day. Both Johnny and Jeffrey have a speedboat for one person, while Jennifer and Josh share one for two, with some assistants and entourages for them. However, because there is no mobile phone signal on the island, Mary usually stays on the shore, and Jenny comes here alone. For several days in a row, there was a solid silence on the speedboat.
Jenny herself was a little seasick, so she decided to enter the performing arts space on the return trip. On the one hand, she had a rest, and on the other hand, she also avoided the embarrassment with Josh. There was heavy rain tonight, and the sea was rough. She was a little scared, but she didn't Wishing to show weakness to Josh, he went straight into the space as soon as he got on the boat and sat down, not knowing what happened. When I was awakened, the boat had already begun to take in water-due to the wind and waves, the speedboat hit the rocks and the bottom of the boat was scratched.
Of course, there are life jackets in the speedboats, so there is no need to panic in this situation. Just put them on and wait for rescue. Several speedboats are going hand in hand. It is impossible for their accidents to be discovered by no one, and it should happen soon. Someone came to the rescue.
However, the bad thing is that the bottom of the boat was scratched. Jenny was in the space just now, and her reaction was a bit slower. When she came back to her senses and knew what she should do, the life jacket fell out of the hole Now, she was really panicking—it was dark, the wind was strong, in the middle of the vast sea, the whole ship was slowly sinking into the water, shaking non-stop, and she didn't even have a **** life jacket.
The situation became very urgent, no one said much, the captain has been calling his companions by radio, organizing rescue, and busy fixing the hull, Josh took off his life jacket and put it on for Jenny without saying a word Come on, after she put it on, he tried to untie the lifebuoy tied on the side of the boat, but before he could untie it, the captain yelled, Josh just didn't wear anything, and pulled Jenny , jumped out of the cabin under the vague command of the captain.
To be honest, if it weren't for him, Jenny might not understand what the captain was shouting at all under the wind and waves and panic, because she can hardly see anything now, so her five senses are also deceived, and she feels that the surrounding environment Very turbulent, and she was so nervous and terrified that she wanted to throw up.
After falling into the water, she didn't know where the captain was, and she didn't know where the captain went. It was too hard to hinder Josh's own swimming movement, because the life jacket couldn't bear the weight of two people, and if Josh hugged her, they would all sink.
To be honest, Jenny has encountered many low tides in her life, but only at this moment did she know what it means to be abandoned by the whole world. Ah, she was left with pure survival instincts and a strong determination to stay with Josh.
"Josh!" A wave hit, and Jenny was pushed back a few meters, she screamed in fear, and shouted without knowing the direction, "Josh! God, Josh! Where are you! "
Fortunately, the next second, the opposite wave pushed her forward again, and Jenny also heard Josh's cry, "Jennifer!"
Then came a sharp whistle, and repeated calls: "Jennifer!"
Under the repetition of whistles and calls, Jenny identified the direction. She managed to regain some sense and swam to Josh's direction with all her strength. She doesn't get pushed too far back, but when the waves push her way, she can go a long way.
But in fact, Josh was not far away from her. When Jenny arrived at Josh's side in the misty sea light (the sinking speedboat), she was ashamed to find that Josh had only swam a few meters away. Moreover, there was a miraculously extra life buoy on his body, which looked very much like the one he didn't take off just now.
"I'm sorry!" Josh immediately explained after hugging her, "Jennifer, I can't last long without a lifebuoy, otherwise we will both be in danger."
"God, God, luckily you're okay!" Jenny couldn't listen to the explanation at all, she hugged Josh's... I would rather die with Josh in my arms than be washed into the depths of the sea alone and drown. "Fortunately, you are fine!"
"Calm down, it's okay, Jennifer, we are safe." Josh may have sensed her emotional instability, he turned around and struggled to find the angle, and hugged Jenny in front of him, letting her and him As close as possible to her ear, she said steadily, "We will be safe soon, Jennifer. The captain has contacted his colleagues. The wind and waves are too strong now. As soon as the wind and waves subside, the Coast Guard will come out to pick you up." We, we are near the fixed route, the target is very obvious, we will be rescued."
In a panic situation, an orderly explanation is the best way to regain sanity, and Jenny gradually listened to the words—her survival instinct receded, and her sociality returned to her body.
"Really?" Thinking about it, she also breathed a sigh of relief. Indeed, although no one lives on this island, it is also a tourist attraction. Besides, the film crew passes by this route every day. Near the island, you can find it by helicopter and speedboat. "Hey, what about the captain?"
Josh took her hand and asked her to touch a rope of the life buoy. The rope was taut and was obviously under stress, "He's on the other side of the reef. He kept shouting when the ship sank just now. Didn't you listen?" Arrived? He wants to fix us on the reef, so that the rescue work will be less laborious. He also asked me to dive there to get the life buoy.”
"I was too flustered at the time." Jenny murmured, "Basically I didn't hear anything."
"It's okay, it's okay," Josh's voice was particularly calm in the waves, and his arms around Jenny were also firm, "You're okay now, don't be afraid, Jennifer."
The boat has sunk very deep, and the surroundings are gradually getting dark. In the boundless sea, there is not even a star or moonlight. The only familiar things she can touch, which belong to human society, are the lifebuoy and the rope. and Josh.
Jenny vaguely knew that this seemed to be an empathy effect, but she really suddenly felt that her affection for Josh had exploded to the highest point - this man was really quite trustworthy.
"Don't call me Jennifer," she said, "Call me Jenny—that's my real name."
The author has something to say: Note: If you have complained about the poor signal of China Mobile... American mobile phone signal is even worse. It is very normal that there is no signal in the elevator, subway, basement and countryside. It is so normal that the American people would not hesitate mentioned. It is very normal for Ueno Island to have no signal. Anyone who has watched Criminal Minds should still remember the fact that the mobile phone had no signal at that critical moment.
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